Nose-protecting strap for goggles



H. F. SHINDEL NOSE PROTECTING STRAP FOR GOGGLES Dec. 18, 1928. I 1,695,393

Filed Sept. 10, 1927v Patented Dec. 18, 1928 UNiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY F. SHINDEL, F READING, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNUR T0 WILLSON PRODUCTS, INC., OF READING, FENNSYL'V'ANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

NOSE-PROTECTING STRAP FOR GOGGLES.

Application filed September 10, 1927.

My invention relates particularly to goggles having separately formed lens framings With flexible con iecting means; and it consists in an improved buckle-strap connection adapted to insure protective and comfortable supportnoon the nose of the wearer, as fully set forth in connection With the accompanying drawings and clearly defined in the claim.

Fig. l is an inner face View of one of a pair of lens framings having my improved buckle-strap connection applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a separate plan View of my improved strap, showing the buckle adjustably secured to one end thereof. I

The separate lens framings shown are indicated by the goggle eye-cup 10; and the buckle-strap connecting these frai'nings is rep resented as having its end portions passed 0 through an attaching projection 11, which is formed on a lens-clamping yoke 12 on the split cup as is set forth inrny pending application of even date herewith, though such strap attaching means may be otheiavise ovidod upon the lens framings as desire The buckle 15, as illustrated, is of ordinary pinch-plate type, having at each end portion strap passage-Ways 16 and With a separating cross-bar 18 around which the strap is turned to adjustably secure the same;

the essential characteristic of this or any equivalent construction of a connecting; buckle being that its Width is necessarily Serial N 0. 218,670.

greater than the Width of the engaged strap, so that the buckle is commonly liable to come into contact With the nose of the wearer. The positive avoidance of such buckle contact, and provision for insuring certain and comfortable strap contact only, are matters of practical importance, and to that end I have found it essential to depart from the natural and heretofore invariable practice of employing a simple strap of uniform Width, and to employ instead a specially shaped strap as shown, having end portions 20, 20- of a Width adapted to engage the buckle as usual, but formed with a widened midway portion 21 for broad contact With the wearers nose. This simple but important special forming of the strap effectively insures its proper functioning as a comforti able protective support on the nose as has not heretofore been provided for in strap connections.

What I claim is:

In combination With separate lens framings; a connecting buckle-strap comprising a buckle adapted to adjustably engage the strap ends, and strap havingend portionsof less Width than said buckle and a widened midway portion forming a nose-rest Which laterally overlaps the ends-engaging buckle. In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

HARRY r. SHINDEL. 

